The RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay swim for 2017 will be on Saturday, June 10th at 5 pm. High tide that day will be at 7pm. Fantastic conditions are expected 🙂
Don’t say you didn’t get enough notice 🙂
Three swims we’ve been asked to mention are:
Loch Alleu on July 9th,
Inchydoney on August 7th
East Ferry on August 13th (Update: This date is incorrect and is being moved. Will post details when we have them).
Details for each are below.
Entry details for the Loch Alleu Swim on Saturday, July 9th:
https://register.primoevents.com/ps/event/LochAlleuSwim#
Entries are coming in steadily for next Saturday and the forecast looks favourable. If you’re not in and you’re going to enter, please do so today or early in the week.
Click here to enter on Active.
For those not competing, volunteers are always welcome. We’d like plenty of cover for timekeepers, bag drops etc. All help is welcome. If you can spare some time, please email myrtlevilleswimmers@gmail.com or tweet @MyrtlevilleS and we’ll put you on the list of vital helpers 🙂
Timekeeping team 2015 – Yvette McKeown, Claire Canning, Aisling Barry, Gary Frost & Peter Frost.
From Carol Cashell, Paschal Horgan & Liam Maher:
The Active link is available to book into the Rebel Plunge Swim, on Thursday June 9th @ 7pm.
This Inaugural Event is taking place in conjunction with Cork Harbour Festival Week (Ocean to City).
You’ll find us on Facebook too – search The Rebel Plunge 2016 (thanks to Barry O’Sullivan for the name!) or just click here.
While June 18 is the only one you really need to know, here is Draft 1 of a few other swims for you to consider over the Summer 🙂
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The 2016 RNLI Myrtleville to Church Bay (entrance to Cork Harbour) 2km open water sea swim will take place on Saturday, June 18th at 3.00pm.
Participants must have submitted their entry online. We can’t accept entries on the day.
Entries this year are online with Active. Take note of the No Refunds policy – we’re donating entries to the RNLI.
Enter here: RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay 2016 Entries on Active
RNLI – as posed by Gary, Carol, Eleanor, Andrew, Brian and Orla – for Siobhan Russell
The event went off very successfully, with 101 swimmers who all completed the course. Our thanks again to all of the volunteers, the RNLI, Coast Guard, Gardaí, Funkytown and many individuals who helped with boats, kayaking, course marking, registration, van loading and – the hard bit – unloading, timekeeping, results preparation etc. It’s easy to run an event when there are so many willing helpers.
Trevor Woods took first place in a new course record of 24:24. Fantastic swimming. He was ahead of Trevor Malone and Ned Denison in second and third places.
Charley Breen produced a great swim to win the ladies race, ahead of Carol Cashell and Orla Houlihan.
As well as these top swims at the head of the field, there were excellent performances right through the 101 swimmers in challenging conditions. With wind and waves to deal with, it wasn’t an easy swim. To see everyone home safely in 53 minutes was fantastic.
Special mention to two performances on the day. Abby and Drew Lynch – daughters of Bernard and Frank – swam together and finished in the top thirty swimmers. It’s a joy to see this kind of courage and ability in two young girls. Very well done to both of them. Lots more to come from them in the future.
The other performance to mention was at the back of the field. Dan Murphy only learned to swim less than a year ago and has been in Myrtleville continuously all Summer. On Saturday – with support all the way from Carlos Amaja – he completed the course in 53 minutes. It’s a fantastic achievement and should be an encouragement to anyone to take up the sport. Very well done, Dan.
Thanks to Siobhan Russell for capturing the day and for all her hard work. All of the photos are online here.
Trevor Malone – 2nd.
Carol Cashell and Orla Houlihan – 2nd & 3rd Ladies – just as they were at the National Championships last weekend!
Thanks to the RNLI, Coast Guard, Kate in Centra, timekeepers, Funkytown and all the other volunteers who assisted today. Well done to everyone who took part. 101 swimmers and everyone completed in a great time.
RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay Swim 2015 – Results – August 15 2015
All entrants to date will receive an email today, Monday, to confirm they are entered. We would ask anyone who has entered but can’t make it, to let us know.
If you haven’t entered and want to do so, do it here: RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay Swim 2015.
From Ray McArdle:
Just five days to go until the 2015 Courtmacsherry Lifeboat swim on July 25th at 12 noon.
The final details are coming along nicely and we can now only hope for some good weather on the day.
Registration is available at the following web site until midnight on Wednesday, July 22nd. We will allow some registrations on the day for €20 with all proceeds going to the RNLI charity.
More details about the event can be found at the Facebook page for Courtmacsherry Lifeboat Swim.
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